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  • August 26, 2013
    Justice and peace in focus during ecumenical visit to US

    Ecumenism, justice and peace were the focus during the World Council of Churches General Secretary's recent visit to churches in the USA.

  • August 20, 2013
    Justice alone is not the same as peace

    In a substantial address given at the launch of Just Festival 2013, Bishop John Armes explores the relationship between peace and justice, the struggle against poverty and exclusion, key themes in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, and the challenge of particular global situations like the one in Zimbabwe. Dr Armes is also chairing a conversation on 'A Good Society' on Tuesday 20 August.

  • July 15, 2013
    Anglicans and Lutherans join hands in Ottawa

    The World Council of Churches General Secretary has welcomed the first-ever joint assembly of the Anglican and Evangelical Lutheran Churches of Canada.

  • July 3, 2013
    Diakonia 'churches’ response to the suffering of the world', says WCC chief

    The WCC General Secretary, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit shared reflections on diakonia at the DIAKONIA 21st World Assembly, which is being held in Berlin 1 to 8 July.

  • June 18, 2013
    Global and local focus as Just Festival launches in Edinburgh

    The Just Festival has launched its ambitious 2013 programme in Edinburgh, with a challenge to build bridges and break down barriers between communities.

  • June 17, 2013
    A festival of intercultural exchange, open spirituality and social change

    A major festival of intercultural understanding, hospitable spirituality and social justice will launch its 2013 programme and announce a new name tomorrow evening (18 June 2013).

  • June 10, 2013
    The role of religion in work for justice and peace

    Religious faith and practice can make the most committed and powerful contributions to reconciliation and to economic justice. It can also use texts and traditions to avoid responsibility and to commit selfish or harmful actions, says Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches. Speaking to the UN, he offers an inspiring yet honest vision of the way churches and other religious communities can make a vital contribution to building justice and peace for the whole of humanity, while being held necessarily accountable before God and the world they are intended to serve.

  • April 30, 2013
    Workers' Memorial Day marked in Bristol

    More than 150 people attended an event in Bristol Cathedral on Sunday 28 April to mark Workers' Memorial Day.

  • February 4, 2013
    Justice is the key to peace in Colombia

    In years of conflict Colombia has seen five million people displaced, 60,000 declared as “missing”, thousands killed, and a million hectares of land snatched away from the rightful owners. Dr Marcelo Schneider addresses the justice that is bound up with peace in a troubled land, and sets the scene for the work of the the Programme of Ecumenical Accompaniment in Colombia (PEAC), inspired by the WCC’s Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel.

  • January 31, 2013
    WCC assembly to focus on sharing around justice and peace

    The 10th World Council of Churches assembly will be an opportunity for praying, listening and sharing together around the central theme of justice and peace.